June 2009 - Posts
With Silverlight 3, we now have access to system colors. If you need your new application to visually fit into the operating system it’s running on, simply inspect one of the static properties, provided by the new SystemColors class – System.HighlightColor...
There are many controls being introduced in Silverlight 3; a lot of them were pulled from the Silverlight Toolkit (the idea is that for every new Silverlight version, Toolkit controls marked as stable are moved to the Silverlight core. I’m not sure how...
Binding to elements is yet another feature, known to WPF-ers since v1. Silverlight 3 now allows bindings between UI elements and their properties, without having to use other classes as a workaround. There are numerous cases of when to use such binding...
Coming from the WPF world, finding out that Silverlight lacked the feature of distributing application resources among separate files was one of those kick in a head moments. Well, not anymore. Silverlight 3, like its big brother WPF, now supports partitioning...
Silverlight 3 is introducing a small, but very powerful feature: styles in Silverlight 3 can be set multiple times! For example, executing the following code in Silverlight 2 will throw a “catastrophic failure” exception on the second line: textBox.Style...
With Silverlight 3 knocking on the door ( July 10? ) it’s time to offload my Silverlight 3 examples. Not that they would show anything new (since SL3 Beta got out, new features had been demoed by various people to the death), it’s just another perspective...
Had 2 talks at this year’s NT Konferenca . The first one was about building LOB application with Silverlight, starting from what can we do today with v2 (run a short, 2 min video of a Silverlight 2 LOB app we’re going to be releasing within few weeks...